Baseball

Rabouin returns for his sixth season on the Gallaudet University
baseball staff as the pitching coach. He has coached six
all-conference pitchers in the North Eastern Athletic Conference
(NEAC) including 2013 NEAC Pitcher of the Year Brandon Holsworth in
the past three seasons. He also had an all-conference second team
pitcher in the Capital Athletic Conference in 2010. GU has won 20
or more games the past two seasons and was regular season
co-champions in 2013.

Rabouin, who has been coaching since 1988, served as the
pitching coach with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs in 2009. The
Blue Crabs reached the Atlantic League championship in '09 but lost
to the Somerset Patriots in four games. For six seasons, Rabouin
served as the pitching coach on a Butch Hobson led coaching staff.
The pair won the Atlantic League championship with Nashua (N.H.) in
2000.

The Bronxville, N.Y., native attended Andress High School and
went on to attend the University of Texas-Pan American. He was
drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 26th round of the 1972 draft
out of Texas-Pan American. After two seasons in the Reds farm
system he traveled to Mexico to play for 14 seasons. He returned to
the states in 1979 and played for Bakersfield in the California
League, Single-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Overall, he
played 14 seasons in Mexico at various levels from summer to winter
ball leagues. In 1983, he recorded 235 strikeouts and posted a 19-8
record with six shutouts and one no-hitter. Rabouin also pitched
professionally in the Dominican Republic with the Panama Bankers of
the AAA Inter-American League.

His coaching stints include stops with various Major League
Baseball (MLB) affiliate teams such as the Baltimore Orioles,
Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays and
college stops with Howard University and Prince George’s
Community College. Rabouin was an ambassador to China in
MLB’s Play Ball program (2007-08) where he spent six weeks,
over two years, teaching Chinese children and adults how to play
and coach the game.